Welcome to the Butthole Album Art Awards! (BHAAAs)

This is my 6th annual compilation of the best holes each year has to offer. Here are my 40 of 2022:

BOTCH reunited and this metallic BH 🎯 feels so good
[Bandcamp]

AVEL: Partly cloudy with a 100% chance of blinding BH
[Bandcamp]

THANATOPHOBIA and their M.C. Esher BH kingdom
[Bandcamp]

TESKA having the worst migraine ever, in need of extra strength forehole relief
[Bandcamp]

Land, sea, or air: KRIMH can get that BH there
[Bandcamp]

There’s always one goatse every year, thank you for your service SACRAL NIGHT
[Bandcamp]

LIFE/LIMB reinventing the “serpent radius-ulna BH” wheel
[Bandcamp]

The barren BH sun will consume us all
–BEKOR QILISH, 2022
[Bandcamp]

ONLY NOW: All hands on deck
[Bandcamp]

GRAAL: Death carries a scythe and a stained glass cyclops BH
[Bandcamp]

This little ‘BH stomach’ light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
–THE TEMPLE
[Bandcamp]

DAYS OF DESOLATION: Birth, school, BH, death
[Bandcamp]

NOGOTHULA: Satanic clothespin (lost at sea) BH
[Bandcamp]

TERRA blinding us with cosmic BH dust from this extreme blastoff
[Bandcamp]

MINIPONY and their kaleidoscope BH (always one of these every year too)
[Bandcamp]

PERVERSION: Watch your step!
[Bandcamp]

REVEREND MOTHER didn’t need to draw those tendrils on the crystal ball
[Bandcamp]

SAPRAEMIA latching on with their tractor beam BH (with extra strength coils)
[Bandcamp]

Crater Blast BH by KILL SHELTER
[Bandcamp]

UR and their planetary petri dish BH
[Bandcamp]

Congrats to label CYCLIC LAW and their 20th anniversary sampler BH! (just wow)
[Bandcamp]

FULL OF HELL squeezed out a new EP this year
[Bandcamp]

They are called ANALEPSY after all
[Bandcamp]

AMON ACID droppin’ a wild Ouroboros BH
[Bandcamp]

DENOUNCEMENT PYRE: The Apis BH Burns Bright
[Bandcamp]

Heavy lies the crown by 偏執症者 (Paranoid)
[Bandcamp]

SFEERVERZIEKER: Shanties to steer thy cursed helm to
[Bandcamp]

I’m BH (da ba dee) by ANUBIS
[Bandcamp]

DEMORALIZER: Mission accomplished!
[Bandcamp]

TRUP: Hellooooooooooooooo
[Bandcamp]

HYPOMANIC DAYDREAM / HOMESKIN
Snuffleupagus bids farewell
[Bandcamp]

ASTRAL TOMB named their album ‘Soulgazer’ when ‘Holegazer’ is right there (too easy)
[Bandcamp]

MAIDEN HAIR depicts Venus de BH
[Bandcamp]

KATO and their framed “hot ones”™️ BH
[Bandcamp]

ROTBORN: Independence Day BH
[Bandcamp]

NOLDOR’s falling away from me BH
[Bandcamp]

PRIDELANDS rhapsody in blue (BH)
[Bandcamp]

ABYSMAL DAWN (hey)
[Bandcamp]

HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE always look to the north BH
[Bandcamp]

MARILLION teaches a lesson in color theory (mostly warm)
[YouTube]

Thanks for tuning in! Happy New Year!
-Justin

Welcome to the Butthole Album Art Awards! (BHAAAs)

Here are the 50 albums that best make up the hole of 2021! Click on the artwork for Bandcamp link.

This #1 BH be moving if you stare long enough. Congrats to SAMUEL MARTINS COELHO on the top prize!

Ride the snake with the centipede BH from SULPHUROUS

CREEPING DEATH and their tornado alley angel hair BH

VOLA‘s BH absolutely stalks

MANNVEIRA and the BH sirens

FERRITERIUM: Look at the BH you’ve become!

We can all feel the Atlas BH from KANKAR

INOCULATION and their Space Spider BH

VERHäANGNIS offers a very unique colon POV BH

FORHIST offers an arborist ouroboros BH or foxtail BH: a real viewers’ choice!

Congrats to VOIDSPHERE on their third consecutive BHAAA appearance!

CRYPTUM and their swampy sewer BH

AEROSOL JESUS breaking it down with the Venn diagram BH

Whoaaaaa heaven let your light shine down!
–ISON

PERIHELION GNOSIS giving us the pentagram BH howdoyoudo

FECULENT: gnarly ass dm EP complete with a mygodwoujalookatthat BH

CULT OF PARTHENOPE serving up an anatomy soup BH

“BH In The Sky As I Pour Sand On Some Guy” by ZAQQOEM

SWELLING REPULSION: When the band name sells the BH alone. Don’t let the sliced worms take your eyes away from the target.

There’s one crescent BH every year and EASTERN HIGH‘s got you

Upside down you’re turning me
You’re giving love instinctively
Around and round you’re turning me
I say to BH respectfully
–ZEOLITE

There’s also a Kaleido BH every year, thanks GIZMACHI!

GATECREEPER hoisting a nugget BH cave greeting

NECRECTOMY and a trve BH hobbit-hole

My plasma globe BH brings all the frogs to the yard
–MANDRAX

BLACK SHEEP WALL sportin’ a Pan’s Labyrinth BH

THE BEAST OF NOD: Now who’s attacking whom here?

ÆTHERIA CONSCIENTIA ponderin’ their BH orb

WREKAN (in very Mrs. Doubtfire voice): helloooooooooooo

VOKONIS has an absolute unit of a crest BH

Diffraction BH by LORD OF THE ISLES

MAINLINER is the name and hypnosis fingerprint BHs are their game

NEMOROUS: HE TIRED

As advertised! (STUCK)

PALUS SOMNI invites you to gather ’round the merry BH

DESTINITY has spirograph BHs for days

THRICE still at it with this vibrant BH

Hey FUNERAL NOISE, leave the poor hooded soul alone ffs

Death, taxes, and Everlasting Spew releasing a BH album (BENOTHING)

CEPHEIDE suffering an absolute monster migraine BH

The band’s name is HADIT okay?

Watch it with your MORGUL BLADE will ya?

FRACTAL GENERATOR are purveyors of the BH artwork since 2008

LACERATION dishin’ out a BH earthquake

DEPRAVITY: May cause extreme inflammation

MESARTHIM latching on with a tractor beam BH

Hey MANUEL BARBARÁ, this moon has gone too far

Slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you’re slip slidin’ away
–ꙂꙨѮŮӜŮѮꙨꙂ

ORDINUL NEGRU presents A Handsmaid’s BH (I don’t even know anymore)

“Expressway To Yr BH” by NECROCHAOS

This is not on the list, but rather a PSA to THE VOIDS EMBRACE. You are not eligible for the BHAAAs if it’s an actual BH. Also just need this out there so I don’t get an excited DM about “what I missed”.

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Thanks for visiting! Happy 2022!